Charles Sumner: “One of the most enterprising and faithful in the whole country is a constituent of my own, who, during the last year…”

“One of the most enterprising and faithful in the whole country is a constituent of my own, who, during the last year, has been hurried into bankruptcy from inability to meet liabilities growing out of the war, and at this moment he finds no chance of relief except in what a just Government may return to him.”